Happy Dydd Santes Dwynwen to all our readers!

Romantics across Wales will celebrate today and we’d love to hear from anyone with a St Dwynwen’s Day-related story.

Did you meet your partner on this day? Perhaps you got engaged or proposed!

Let us know and we’ll publish as many as we can.

For those unfamiliar with why we celebrate this date every year, here’s some information about St Dwynwen - or Santes Dwynwen - courtesy of Visit Wales.

How did St Dwynwen become the Welsh patron saint of lovers?

Dwynwen was the prettiest of King Brychan Brycheiniog’s 24 daughters.

She fell in love with a local lad called Maelon Dafodrill, but King Brychan had already arranged for her to marry another prince.

Maelon took the news badly, so the distraught Dwynwen fled to the woods to weep, and begged God to help her.

She was visited by an angel who gave her a sweet potion to help her forget Maelon, which happened to turn him into a block of ice.

God then granted Dwynwen three wishes. Her first wish was that Maelon be thawed; her second wish was for God to help all true lovers; her third wish was that she would never marry.

In gratitude, Dwynwen became a nun and set up a convent on Llanddwyn Island, a beautiful little spot on Anglesey.

Her name means, ’she who leads a blessed life’.

Incidentally, as well as being the Welsh patron saint of lovers, she’s also the patron saint of sick animals. So if your budgie is unwell, you could try praying to St Dwynwen before calling the vet (we aren’t making any promises, though).

When is St Dwynwen’s Day?

We celebrate St Dwynwen’s Day (or ’Dydd Santes Dwynwen’ in Welsh) on 25 January every year.

What happens on St Dwynwen’s Day?

It’s just like Valentine’s Day, so it is positioned as the most romantic day of the year in Wales.

We exchange cards and gifts, take time out, have special meals with our loved ones... some may go as far as to take long walks on deserted beaches, carve lovespoons, cwtch up in front of a roaring log fire and all that romantic fuzziness.

Does everyone celebrate St Dwynwen’s Day in Wales?

No, but it’s becoming increasingly popular, especially among Welsh speakers

You don’t have to be Welsh-speaking (or even Welsh) to join in the love-fest.

You have our total blessing to surprise your loved one with a special St Dwynwen’s Day treat – like a weekend of Welsh passion at one of these wildly romantic hotels, or a lovesome twosome at one of these amorous hotspots.

For the ultimate amatory adventure, make a pilgrimage to St Dwynwen’s Church at Llanddwyn Island on Anglesey.